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George Foreman vs. Ken Norton
George Foreman vs. Ken Norton, billed as "The Caracas Caper", was a professional boxing match contested on March 26, 1974 for the WBA, WBC and ''The Ring'' heavyweight championships.
==Background==
Undefeated heavyweight champion George Foreman had little trouble in his two fights the previous year. First he captured the WBA and WBC heavyweight titles after dominating Joe Frazier, scoring six knockdowns in less than two rounds in an easy technical knockout victory in January 1973. Foreman would follow this by making his first defense against Jose "King" Roman in Tokyo in September of that year, easily winning the bout by first round knockout. For his second defense, Foreman was matched up against Ken Norton for a March 1974 bout held in Caracas, the capital and largest city in Venezuela. Norton was coming off two successive fights against Muhammad Ali in 1973, winning the first fight in March by split decision (famously breaking Ali's jaw in the process), and then narrowly losing the second by another split decision in September. Norton's impressive performances against Ali made him one of the top heavyweight contenders for Foreman's titles, but the future hall-of-famer was installed as a 3–1 underdog against the hard-hitting champion and given little chance of obtaining a victory. A week before the fight had happened, promoter Don King, banking on a victory by Foreman, had already inked a deal that would see Foreman make his next defense against Ali in the "Rumble in the Jungle." 〔(When George was King: Foreman vs Norton 29 year anniversary ), Secondsout.com article, Retrieved on 2014-03-29〕
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